- And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ Zechariah 13:9 – Much of this chapter is illustrating the suffering Jesus was to go through for our behalf. Here we see a truth that many Christians want to overlook or is a truth that when seen as a reality they lose faith. The truth that there will still be suffering and trials even within the believer’s life. If Christ suffered, so will we. Hopefully we won’t have to suffer like He did on the cross, but we must accept that life isn’t free of suffering now that we have Jesus. God is working on us and we live still in a broken world. Until heaven, we must accept suffering is a reality in a believer’s walk, but remember that God has home of perfect peace awaiting us and is with us even in the sufferings of this life. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1127
- And on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. Zechariah 13:2 – Yesterday my sermon was focusing on Idolatry. We discussed how if there is anything in your story directing your actions, defining your relationships, determining your steps, or dictating what’s right for you other than God, then we are listening to a false god in our story. Here in our passage the Lord is speaking of His plans to rid the land of idols, false prophets, and this spirit of uncleanliness. God’s plan is to remove all this from our story…is that our plans though? We must get away from thinking idolatry is just worshiping a golden statue in a temple somewhere. If anything other than Jesus is being the voice we guide our life off of, that voice is who we’re saying is god in our story. Who’s voice then is the one directing, defining, determining, and dictating within your story? If it’s not Jesus, then we need to make a change. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2122
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